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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  curve. This curve will be what Gabe uses to decide whether he should get ... works. It takes another three pages to derive the social demand curve ... vaccine has on other people. In order to reach the socially optimal

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Teacher of the Year MIT's notable alumni include amazing teachers.

  

  tables and are asked to solve problems too complicated for one. So, they ... ," he said. "I began to see that there was an option that I had never considered -- teaching physics at a high school level. That would allow me to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  that is very interesting to me (and you, I suspect): gifted education ... established Davidson Academy, coming to Nevada residents courtesy of the folks ... the news of its opening gave the Times an excuse to write about gifted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  to Ruth '07's column from last week. Two people complimented me on my ... where I find it sort of exciting to be in the Tech, assuming that I'm not ... my faces on them to get people to vote for our ticket. They tried to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They’re not just regular artists… ...they're Artists in Residence.

  

  noted artists to campus to work with MIT students. The program is called Artists in Residence, and has been bringing artists to Cambridge for more ... the opportunity to work closely with Tan Dun and also with Guillermo

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Issel Lim: IBD Research Issel Lim has been trying to create an effective mouse model for ulcerative colitis, a…

  

  (IBD), which causes inflammation of the digestion tract and leads to ... Issel Lim has spent the past year trying to create an effective mouse ... pathogen that is closely related to Escherichia coli and infects the colon of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  was this: people prefer to tell us about the things they think we ... ahead of me in school, was working on her college essay on the bus to a ... , is that Varsity Club didn't really seem to be an important part of Erin

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  archetypes, if you will: [annotation note="Because of how I chose to divide the ... of any class, but it helps demonstrate the differences I want to show ... student has to take. The strongest examples of problem set classes are the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  that stuck with me. such things tend to stick with me. we were talking ... the word. literally, african american refers to people who live in or ... black people can relate to each other and speak to each other - it's a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  we were asked to do it four days before the event, so we had three days to prepare, and i shrivel from embarrassment every time someone ... spinning to redeem myself and wipe that talk from my memory. [caption id

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  memorabilia from the school year! He has yet to successfully hold ALL of ... , wholesome sticky notes given to us by freshman in the program at the final FAP ... arcade that we went to the last time we hung out with our high school

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... in this case being the 1E cats" - credit for caption and images goes to ... Bunnies for my birthday (credit to the wonderful Kristen Y. '19 and Jamie C

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  . I have one book to my left—Stephen King’s Four Past Midnight—which I was finally able to read over the past week, and propped on my legs is ... resolution to start reading a novel, a resolution that lasted just about until

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  . But in the last month, since coming back to MIT from Thanksgiving break ... all you want is a few more precious minutes to figure out that damn ... was kind of a bath of crap (my roommate, Sneha ’13, can attest to this

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  in the friendliest sense of the phrase. His trip to Whole Foods ended ... out to be invisible until right after everyone leaves the dinner table ... -sweet BBQ sauce that makes me want to weep honeyed, tangy tears of the same

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  . Life after it happens is at least semi-solid enough to serve on a plate ... about recycling, etc. I consider reading it and decide to keep blogging ... :33 pm: I really, really need to cough again. Anyway, because it's summer

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  realized that according to many theories, we shouldn't be seeing anything ... kind of conference I was attending. But when I told him I was going to a ... novel to come out this summer. I checked into the hotel and went across

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  task—no, my duty—to finally say what needs to be said: MIT is a jock ... prove it to you. Dominating our Conference MIT is the most successful ... to be clear, this isn’t one team carrying everyone else on their back

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  ... which just goes to show what a great job the acoustics engineers did on soundproofing the building! I got to experience it first ... ="aligncenter" width="768"] Rambax and Galak Tika used to rehearse in Building N52 – a 10

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  .) and various sensors (accelerometers, capacitive sensing, etc.) to create ... encourages us to go wild with our imaginations, as long as the end product ... semester (although I haven't had the chance to build most of them... yet

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024